The Ice Storm
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In Theaters : 27 September, 1997 |
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The chilling effects of 1973 in ANG LEE's "The Ice Storm"
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1973 was a turbulent year.President Richard Nixon was watching his administration dissolve into scandal and the culture of the time saw marriages breaking up more rapidly,free love expanding from the hippies to the suburbs,people were reading all of the numerous "self-help" books flooding the market,drugs were becoming middle and upper class norms,children were "latch-key" kids,everyone went to an "analyst" and every taboo was being broken.What the '60's started, the '70's completed.THIS IS THE MATERIAL of Ang Lee's "The Ice Storm" presented so finely tuned and so expertly executed that calling it a "subtle,tense nail-biter" is the only way that I can choose to describe this film.
Let me say this right now: this film IS NOT going to appeal or be understood by lots of viewers so I really cannot see why anyone would waste the time arguing about the film. I was 18 years old when this film takes place, and so for me it was a study in the time frame that shaped my late high school and early college days.That I know for a fact that my family experienced all of these chilling events that Ang Lee presents, chilled my 50 something soul down to and through the marrow of my bones.
If you recently saw ACROSS THE UNIVERSE in the theatre, then THE ICE STORM is what resulted from the Era that THAT film chronicled.
Two families are scrutinized in this 1970's study;actors Joan Allen and Kevin Kline with their children played by Christina Ricci and Tobey Maguire; and the other parents,Sigourney Weaver and Jamey Sheriden and their offspring Elijah Wood and Adam Hann-Byrd. Lee stalks these two families,their inner turmoils and inter-relations and brings all of these dysfunctionalities,(as it were mentioned above) to an "infected head" during a freak ice storm where one of them dies.That's all I am saying.This film is a master look at the Era and its well developed characters.You may like NONE of these characters,because we are not certain that they even like themselves.Nothing is left untouched or underdeveloped.Nothing that is exposed is covered up.MAN...WHAT A FILM! Only Ang Lee (BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN,SENSE AND SENSIBILITY and the current LUST CAUTION) could pull this one off.
Mychael Danna (WATER) composed the soundtrack which is peppered liberally with top 40 tunes of the times. |
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